Posts Tagged ‘Affirmative Action’

In the 1970s concerns grew that people of color were inappropriately represented in America’s institutions of higher education. Social engineers and the judicial branch of government determined that this inequity could be addressed by programs that became known as Affirmative Action. While the inequity was real, evidence indicates the corrective actions have failed.

The Times only offered snippets of potential reasons behind the Affirmative-Action’s failure in America’s top 100 schools. This includes what the Times refers to as “equity issues that begin earlier” and “distinct disadvantage to begin with”. A deeper dive into these issues could have been informative and point towards corrective actions. Did the Times avoid such discussion in fear of who may be to blame for the failure of the Affirmative Action Programs?

The Times indicated that the number of white students enrolled in the top 100 universities has declined since 1980. During this same period there has been an increase in the number of Asian students. The reasons behind these changes deserve study, but were ignored by the Times.

Social engineering is at best a soft science with a record of success that has been spotty. It is often riddled with crony-capitalism. Programs that fail to successfully meet the goals set up when they were created need to be canceled or radically changed.

Social engineering programs should be judges based on results, not emotion. Programs that have proven successful should be considered for expansion. Those that have failed should be eliminated. Unfortunately this type of results-based performance evaluation are rarely used by social engineers and their partners in the government.

It has become apparent that the greatest threat from racism, anti-Semitism and anti-feminism in recent decades comes from the Progressive Left. Almost on a daily basis some Progressive comes out with a public pronouncement of their bigoted beliefs.

Just a few weeks ago it was Progressive White House reporter Helen Thomas who suggested that Jews need to get out of Israel and go back to Poland and Germany where their parents were gassed. This week Progressive reporter from The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Cynthia Tucker, came out of the closet. In an interview with ABC’s Jake Tapper during “This Week” the discussion was GOP Chairman Michael Steele. Here are two of Tucker’s comments:

Michael Steele “is a self-aggrandizing, gaffe-prone incompetent who would have been fired a long time ago were he not black.”

“The irony is that he never would have been voted in as Chairman of the Republican Party were he not black“.

Typical of racists, Ms. Tucker does not focus Michael Steele and whether or not he should leave his position. That would be legitimate debate that Progressives try to avoid in discussions. No, Ms. Tucker focuses on the color of Steele’s skin. Just imagine the outcry if someone suggested the same of President Obama when he makes errors, of which there have been many.

“Yet there’s a potentially even more striking hypocrisy here: didn’t Tucker with her accusation admit that some incompetent black people are hired exclusively because of the color of their skin, and they don’t get fired for exactly the same reason? As such, wasn’t Tucker accidentally making a case AGAINST affirmative action?”

The answer Noel is “of course”. However, the anger and hate for some on the Left are so powerful that it blinds them from logic.

The strongest hate from the Left is reserved for women and people of color that disagree with the Progressive views. This further proof of the cancer growing within the Progressive movement.